Florida Personal Injury Laws

How long will it take us to resolve your Florida Medical Malpractice Claim?

Well, that varies with every case. Some cases resolve early, other cases take years, and it all depends upon how strong your case is. What are the facts that we’re working with? How many defendants are involved in your case? If you like to discuss your case in more detail, give me a call. I’m Ron Gilbert with Colling Gilbert Wright and Carter. 1-800-49-LEGAL.

By: Ron Gilbert

Alternatives To Court

Absolutely, there are. Typically in Florida, a trial is a last resort. In fact, most cases do not go to trial. In Florida, we have mandatory mediation which is an alternative dispute resolution process where no matter what, before your case ever goes to trial in front of a jury or a judge, you’re required to go to an informal mediation in an attempt for both sides to come together and resolve a case or settle a case. So, there are alternatives to going to trial in a case. Also, there are alternatives to filing a lawsuit in a case because oftentimes, before a lawsuit is ever filed, a claim can be handled and settled amicably between both parties where a case can be resolved without there ever being a lawsuit or without there ever being a trial.

Difficulty Winning An Accident Case

Winning any accident case is difficult. It is an uphill battle in the sense that you have to prove your case. In proving your case, you need to show fault or legal responsibility in whole or in part on the part of the other party. If there is some responsibility on your own part, that will be factored into it. But it requires proof and that’s why you want an attorney and you want that attorney to get on your case early.

By: Mel Wright

Factors To Valuing A Personal Injury

Determining what your personal injury case is worth is probably the most difficult task that any attorney has in the course of your case because there’s no easy answer, and the answer to the question often varies greatly from the beginning of the case to the end. It sometimes changes from time to time with additional information that’s obtained through the discovery process. The value of your case depends on a number of factors, including the nature of the accident, the nature and severity of your injuries or damages, and any available insurance coverage that applies to the case. The most important thing to keep in mind is that you should maintain regular contact with your attorney who can answer candidly his or her assessment regarding the value of the case, which helps you decide at every step of the way whether it makes sense to settle your case with the other side, or to continue pursuing your case towards trial.

Key Information On Medical Device Injury

It’s important if you believe you or a loved one have been injured by a medical device. As in other product liability cases, you want to make sure that you preserve the evidence. Often times the laboratory at a hospital during perhaps a revision surgery and a hip surgery, when a defective hip is removed and a new one is put in, it’s important that that evidence be preserved. A lot of times it takes an attorney or a least a loved one to make sure that gets coordinated through the hospital’s laboratory so that evidence can be preserved. As in other cases, not only is it important to preserve the evidence that will become relevant to prove the product is defective later, but it’s important that the injuries are documented. That’s photographs, video documenting of the injuries that a person may be going through, which obviously they will heal over time. If that’s not documented in the beginning, that’s obviously crucial evidence that’s lost.

Evan Fetterman

Hi. I’m Evan Fetterman. I’d like to talk to you. Accidents can happen anywhere. When accidents result in injuries, people trust us for the legal help they need. If you’ve been hurt, call (800) 330-HELP. I’m here for you.

By: Evan Fetterman

About David Best

Hi. I’m David Best. I’m one of the founding partners of Best & Anderson. I grew up in Central Florida, in Orlando, from the first grade through the 12, and then I went to Florida State where I majored in math. Then, I moved to Washington to work for the National Security Agency, and went to law school at night and graduated from American University. I came straight down and took the bar, passed it the first time.

Experience

Since then I’ve tried literally hundreds of cases in state court, federal court, all over Florida and in other states, and have even appeared and prevailed in the United States Supreme Court, which very few people have done. I hate to brag, but I’ve been rated the highest rating that the group that rates lawyers can give for 20 years.

Best & Anderson

And our firm then, Best & Anderson, has a preeminent rating by that same company. We can’t affect our ratings. Other lawyers and judges rate us just the way they think we are, and we don’t even have access to how our friends and colleagues rated us. But we are rated the highest we can be, and I’m proud of that.

You hope you don’t have to go to trial, but you want a lawyer that can do it if the case didn’t settle. I think that we have a good law firm. We can try a case, but we settle them because the insurance companies respect us. Thank you for listening to me.

By: David Best

At Fault Driver Has No Insurance

Unfortunately, in the state of Florida, happens all too often where an at-fault driver, or the other driver in an accident, does not have adequate liability insurance or has no insurance coverage at all. It’s important that you carry uninsured or under-insured motorist coverage under your own policy because it happens all too often where you’re victimized in an automobile accident and the at-fault driver does not have coverage. What you also want to do is make sure that you hire a reputable law firm that will look at other avenues of recovery. That could be a product liability case – could there had been an issue with the seatbelt or an airbag or a tire on the vehicle? So when there is a crash where another driver does not have coverage, you want to make sure you carry uninsured motorist coverage under your own automobile policy and have a reputable lawyer or law firm look at other avenues of recovery such as a product liability case.